Improvement in brushes



Patented Nov. 11,1873.

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- Brushes.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE,

CHARLES L. W. BAKER, OF CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN L.

MASON, OE SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT I N BRUSHES.

Specification forming part 01 Leitrrs Patent No. 144,496, dated November 11, 1873; application filed September 16, 1873.

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The nature of this invention consists in forming a taper or cone shaped chambered ferrule to receive the knot and binder, with which the material of which the brush is composed is bound so that when a given quantity of brush material is secured, cemented, and compressed into the taper or cone shape ferrule and chamber it (the material) will be firmly secured, in

* place, and without the least liability of getting out of order.

In the accompanying drawings, a is a taper or cone shape metal ferrule, provided with a chamber, b, to receive the knot and binding wire or cord 0 of the brush material (1, thereby firmly securing the brush material in the ferrule a, it being put together and cemented in the common way, after which the handle f is secured into one end of the ferrule by pins h, thus producing a better, cheaper, and more durable article for use and trade.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- A chambered conical-shaped ferrule, a I), in combination with the handle and brush, substantially as shown and set forth.

CHARLES L. W. BAKER. [L. s.]

Witnesses S. I). ROGERS,

J. W. Buss. 

